Academic Freedom Repressed By Home Office

[totah]

http://indymedia.org.uk/en/2008/05/399451.html

Anybody hear anything about this back in blighty? I'm surprised it didn't make bigger news than indymedia, it's quite a big thing.

Comments?

[free_thinkers_are_dangerous]

Things like this make make me wonder if the terrorists weren't as wrong as I'd like to think.

[mph4ever]

have heard nothing here, just brown under more pressure ahead of the vote in the house of commons for extension of time that a terrorist suspect can be held. he is looking to extend it from 28 days to 42 days. presently there are so many members of the labour party going to vote against him that he is pleading and bargaining with the biggest bunch of bigots, the democractic ulster unionists. its sad when you see brown trying to save his office at the expense of all the hard work that blair and ahearn did on northern ireland

[spitfirejunky]

Does being arrested under the Terrorism Act necessarily mean he was behaving like a terrorist? Sounds to me like a mere immigration debacle that's been further politicized by this article.

[totah]

Well, he's been studying here for 13 years, I assume they knew he was here. I also assume that he had a student visa and that it didn't expire in the middle of a school year while he was doing research (which he was arrested for).

Actually there was an article I read on this from some small-name newspaper's website that said he downloaded the offending document from a US government research site (there's tonnes of them apparently), and that it was actually editted by the US government prior to online publication (ie. it was de-terrorised or some stupid lingo).

[Dave de Sylvia]

it was de-terrorised or some stupid lingo
And they say we're not winning the war on terror!